This is woman power pure: eight women, most of then over 60 years old, came together to build the Aldeia da Luz (Village of Light). While most of their contemporaries all over the world prepare to retire, these women do the exact opposite: they create a basis which allows them to persue their dream professions.
Next to the already completed handicrafts and art centre (Casa Sandra) two more houses, a textile studio and a medicinal herb workshop, are presently being built.

 

Three experimental dwellings, planned and built in bow shapes by Gernot Minke, Professor for Clay Architecture at the University of Kassel, as well as the above mentioned Casa Sandra designed by Martin Pietsch and built by Sandra Schmidt, together with a tree nursery run by Roland von Stromberg are part of the Aldeia da Luz. The centre of this exeptional little village is formed by a small pond. Around this pond further projects are being built:

the Textile Studio of Alice Lindstedt and the Herb House of Helle Rainer, Irma Fäthke, Inge Seher, Iris Wacker, and Heidrun Pietsch.

 

 

The houses have been planned and designed by Beate Möller (photo), architect in Tameran, together with the help of Rodrigo Munhos, a young architekt from Brasil, and Heidrun Pietsch, one of the eight women who as an artist posesses a great design talent.

The Textile Studio is one-hundred-sixty square meters with a big studio for sewing, a store room, a kitchen, a laundry room, a living area, and a bathroom with shower. In the studio old clothes will be repaired and recycled.

Alice Lindstedt: "I always want to be aware of the conditions under which textiles are being produced in our world. This is why I do not want clothes and other textiles to be discarded too quickly, but they should be honored and used as long as possible … by changing, or repairing them, arranging them in a new way, and using what cannot be worn any more as insulation material for construction, in a way that all textiles will be fully recycled."

The Herb House is one-hundred-twenty-five square meters with a covered outdoor working area of sixty square meters. The building holds a big processing room, a drying room, and a store room. We will process healing and seasoning herbs that grow wild into medicinal and general tee and kitchen spices. In the outside area we will install herb beds and a garden for teaching about healing plants.

Both buildings will offer work and training spaces. We are planning creative gatherings in the Textile Studio for the drafting of a new attractive but also ecological fashion design, and seminars in the Herb House for the teaching of healing knowledge in connection with plants.

Alice Lindstedt: "We are a cell of the Global Campus, which cultivates the old female knowledge about plants (healing knowledge) as well as the knowledge about the crafts (textiles), and passes this on to the youth."

The group of the eight women wanted to build in an ecological and organic way and decided to construct straw bale buildings.

A group of craftsmen from Germany with a lot of experience in straw bale construction is doing the work on these two new buildings.

Sandra Schmidt: "Qualities like hospitality, mutual growth, the joy of life, the transformation of mental energy into matter, and the rediscovery of the inner light will please and nourish the soul of this place."

All those who resonate with this project are warmly welcome to support us. We already have our initial financing so that we could start the construction site in September.

 

 

However, these projects need more financial support to continue. We are very open for investors and loans or shares.

For the rest financing donations and/or loans are warmly welcomed.
The sum needed to cover the termination of the building and the interior finishes are EUR 100.000.--.

We will happily invite you to visit us and negotiate. We are ready to trade our valuable crafts to attract the necessary money for the realization of these projects. Many creative products are waiting for all those who will support us. We are grateful for any feedback.

 

Account for donations in Germany

GLS Gemeinschaftsbank Bochum

Account holder: Karl-Rainer Ehrenpreis – Forschungsgemeinschaft Tamera

Account number: 400 635 2400

BLZ: 430 609 67

IBAN: DE02 4306 0967 4006 3524 00

BIC: GENODEM1GLS

Account for donations in Switzerland

Stiftung Förderfonds der Freien Gemeinschaftsbank Basel

Account holder: Verein Netzwerk/Tamera

Account numer: 400.631.3

Clearing number: 8392

Postal account: Basel: 40-963-0

IBAN: CH20 0839 2000 0040 06313

BIC: RAIFCH22XXX

 

Tax deductible receipts are available for donations made to the account in Switzerland.

 

Account for loans:

GLS Gemeinschaftsbank Bochum

Account holder: Karl-Rainer Ehrenpreis – Forschungsgemeinschaft Tamera

Account number: 400 635 2401

BLZ: 430 609 67

IBAN: DE72 4306 0967 4006 3524 01

BIC: GENODEM1GLS

 

USA

 

International Humanities Center

 

Through IHC (International Humanities Center), a non-profit organisation with 501 [c] tax exempt status, we are able to offer donors the possibility of giving tax deductible donations. Cheques can be directly sent to:

 

IHC - International Humanities Center, POBox 923, Malibu, CA 90265 , USA

 

Pay to: IHC/IGF

 

For credit card payments please call IHC: +1-310-579.2069 (fax: +1-206-333.1797)

 

Please contact: finances(at)tamera.org

For more questions to the Aldeia da Luz: beate.moeller(at)gmx.de